{"id":338970,"date":"2025-12-09T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338970\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:00:08","slug":"bbc-verify-live-fact-checking-trumps-denial-over-releasing-venezuela-boat-strike-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338970\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Fact-checking Trump\u2019s denial over releasing Venezuela boat strike video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump denies saying he\u2019d have \u2018no problem\u2019 releasing Venezuela strike footagepublished at 10:34 GMT<\/p>\n

10:34 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify senior journalist, reporting from Washington<\/p>\n

\"JournalistsImage source, ReutersImage caption, <\/p>\n

Journalists asked questions of the US president during a White House roundtable event with farmers<\/p>\n

On Monday, President Donald Trump was asked by an ABC News reporter whether he would release footage of a Venezuelan boat being hit by a second US strike on 2 September.<\/p>\n

The reporter started by saying \u201cyou said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd off the coast of Venezuela. Secretary Hegseth now says\u201d – before she was cut off by Trump. <\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t say that. This is ABC fake news,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

But just a few days before, on 3 December, when asked whether he would release footage of the second strike, Trump DID say he would have \u201cno problem\u201d with this, saying: \u201cI don\u2019t know what they have, but whatever they have, we\u2019d certainly release – no problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

This time he said, external<\/a> , external<\/a>\u201cwhatever, external<\/a> he, external<\/a> , external<\/a>[Hegseth], external<\/a> decides is okay with me\u201d, external<\/a>, and later described the reporter as \u201cobnoxious\u201d. <\/p>\n

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Saturday that officials were \u201creviewing\u201d whether to release the footage. A video purportedly showing the first strike was posted by Trump on his Truth Social platform shortly after the operation ended. <\/p>\n

There has been rising pressure on the administration to release footage of the second strike, which reportedly killed two survivors of the initial blast.<\/p>\n

Several legal experts have told BBC Verify the so-called<\/a> <\/a>\u201cdouble<\/a> tap\u201d attack likely violated international law. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump denies saying he\u2019d have \u2018no problem\u2019 releasing Venezuela strike footagepublished at 10:34 GMT 10:34 GMT Lucy GilderBBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-338970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}